Re: Problem with AC_CONFIG_FILES targets that contain variables

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Sander Niemeijer wrote on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:12:42PM CEST:
>
> AC_INIT(foo, 1.0)
> my_foos="fooo foooo"
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([$my_foos], [], [my_foos='$my_foos'])
> AC_OUTPUT
> ---
>
> After running configure, try running either:
> $ ./config.status fooo
> or
> $ ./config.status 'fooo foooo'
>
> Both will fail with:
> ---
> config.status: error: invalid argument: fooo

Ah, ok.  Thanks for providing the explicit example, I seem to always
stumble over mental parse errors when reading prose.

Your example does not work with current git Autoconf.  It is, however,
not a recent regression either: 2.59 had problems with this already.

>>> It would be good to mention what users can expect if they would
>>> still try to do it (i.e.  configure works, but config.status wont).
>>
>> Only if we can't get it fixed.
>
> This was assuming you would follow what you said: 'I don't think we will 
> fix this'

Ahh, hmm, I consider the above as separate from the first issue we
discussed (which *was* work-around-able).

Still pondering whether to give up and document the limitation (that
with the above, './config.status FILE' simply does not work), or to
venture for a fix.

Cheers,
Ralf